Denver Acupuncturist Launches National Educational Campaign About Cosmetic Acupuncture - A New Option To Plastic Surgery And Injections
Cosmetic Acupuncture, a holistic and healthy alternative to plastic surgery, BOTOX® Cosmetic injections, chemical peels, and other procedures is now an option to those who want to look younger. Denver-based acupuncturist Martha Lucas, Ph. D., L. Ac., has launched a national educational campaign about the new treatment alternative. Lucas offers Cosmetic Acupuncture Seminars throughout the nation to train acupuncturists about the new procedure. To date, she has held seminars in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, and Tampa, as well as in Vancouver, B. C.
Denver, CO (PRWEB) September 2, 2004
Martha Lucas, Ph. D., L. Ac., a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who specializes in Cosmetic Acupuncture for the face and abdomen, has launched an educational campaign about the new cosmetic acupuncture techniques now available to consumers throughout the nation. According to Dr. Lucas, Cosmetic Acupuncture is a holistic and healthy alternative to plastic surgery, BOTOX® Cosmetic injections, chemical peels, and other procedures that people are using in their efforts to look younger.
"Some of the aforementioned procedures can be dangerous and have serious side effects and none of them actually improve your health. This fact makes Cosmetic Acupuncture the perfect alternative - you look and feel younger because your health improves," Dr. Lucas explains. "Fine wrinkles can disappear and deeper ones may 'level' out. Your basic facial 'personality' remains - except that you're happier and more vibrant looking. You retain the character in your face since the structure of your face isn't changed with Cosmetic Acupuncture."
Acupuncturists may tell you that they do "facial acupuncture" but Lucas advises consumers to check out the acupuncturist's specific training in cosmetic or facial acupuncture as there are several protocols or systems out there. The procedure that Dr. Lucas uses, called Mei Zen (translated as "beautiful person") Cosmetic Acupuncture System(TM), is unique to the field of Cosmetic Acupuncture. She and a colleague developed the system. Together, they teach their system and protocols for the face and abdomen to other acupuncturists in the United States, Canada, and they are planning classes in Europe. Their business, Cosmetic Acupuncture Seminars, has offered seminars in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Dallas, Chicago, and Tampa as well as in Vancouver, B. C. This allows them to refer people who are interested in Cosmetic Acupuncture to practitioners whom they have trained all over the country.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), of which Cosmetic Acupuncture is a part, is a complete system of medicine that treats the patient as a whole and looks for the cause of symptoms or diseases in the overall context of a person's life. TCM includes Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, QiGong Medical Massage, and nutritional advice along with some other therapies. Dr. Lucas prefers to use the word traditional rather than alternative when she refers to the therapies she uses because they are part of a tradition that is more than 5000 years old. "In that respect," she says, "modern Western medicine is the alternative, not TCM or Acupuncture, since modern medicine has a much shorter history. TCM is an ancient medicine treating and healing in a modern world." Lucas argues however that each system has its own particular genius and that legitimate TCM practitioners never attempt to invade the areas where western medicine can provide a better solution than TCM.
A Clinical Instructor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Lucas received her Ph. D. in Research Psychology from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, and her degree in TCM from the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Denver, Colorado. Besides her direct training in TCM school, she has advanced training in QiGong and pulse-taking diagnostics. Lucas works at The Colorado Center of Traditional Medicine located in the Capitol Hill area of downtown Denver. She can be reached at 303-333-6886 or by email at DrMLucas@AcupunctureWoman. com.
Additional information is available at her websites: http://www. CosmeticAcupunctureFaceLifts. com (http://www. CosmeticAcupunctureFaceLifts. com) and http://www. AcupunctureWoman. com (http://www. AcupunctureWoman. com) or go to http://www. Expert411.com (http://www. Expert411.com) and click the Facelift Options tab - or click the following direct link to the page: http://www. Expert411.com/_wsn/page4.html (http://www. Expert411.com/_wsn/page4.html)
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Contact: Martha Lucas, Ph. D., L. Ac., 303-333-6886, DrMLucas@AcupunctureWoman. com
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